 All right so we had snowmageddon here in Ohio and we are here to check out their no heat but we're gonna have to dig our way into the freaking unit that's behind that fence there. Let's go in here and see what's going on in the kitchen area. They said it's not working right. It ain't like it's uncommon for my area but I bring my boots and my shovel so you never know you might get this sucker stuck in a ditch. I've got straps, jumper cables, all that crap. Those are all things you just gotta have in the van so I'm gonna dig this out real quick. Now we got lucky the plow guy ended up back dragging it so we just got a little bit more to go and we'll get in there. I dug out from underneath here, got me a little path there. I pushed the top off, pushed, pushed it right off. That way if the economizer kicks on for air conditioning, which I'm wondering did it possibly suck the snow in and pack it in the coil or something who knows. Got the covers off, filters surprisingly look pretty decent. Belt was a little bit loose looking. I put a new sheave on that on August 2nd of 21. It's out here for a new cooling call and let's see what we got going on here. We got some blanks going on, lower works. There we go. We got some blanky blanks going on here. You barely see it but two blanks on two. Now, well they put it on the backside of this. Two blanks. System lockout. No kidding. That's that strain. Let's kill power and see if we can get her started over again. I can't really get back to my disconnected backer somewhere. So let's do it the old-fashioned way. See if we can unplug that which looks like it killed it. Here we go. Reset. Draft motor. How old do we get going on? Slow blanks. Slow flash. Normal call for heat. Now let's pop this cover, see if we've got an igniter issue. Yeah, it's been kept clean pretty good. See the pressure switch or the igniter is dirty, the flame sensor, but I don't think it ever fires. I think it'll be a flame sensor. Still, it's still blinking. Let's check power on that pressure switch. It finally shut off. We got two blanks. So let's go ahead and get down here and see if we can get this apart without disturbing it. Let's reset this thing again. Gotta be careful when you shove it on there. You don't short it against the metal behind it. The resistance that we've got to open. The LED. It's like, uh, yeah, I'm broke. Real high tech. Mission wire and all. Yep, you can hear it parking. But we know the igniter is working for the spark ignition. So let's go ahead and kill that. Let's make sure we ain't got a bunch of a rubber on the end of this thing. Trim that off a little bit. Linux used to use a carbon fiber in here, kind of like a spark plug, and it would burn off on the end. They finally went back to a wire, but we tripped, trimmed off several different little pieces there and, uh, got a little more than I needed there. Gotta be careful when you shove it on there that you don't just jam it back, which is probably what happened. I've seen people strip it out just a little bit and then kind of bend it over the rubber. But generally, if you kind of wiggle it, you can get to slide past it onto the cable and then usually you're fine. So let's get that on there. Here we go. Make sure it's not short into ground anywhere else in here. Looks like it's gone pretty good across from here to there. It's all tight. Good and tight. There's the flame sensor. It looks like crap. Let's go ahead and clean that real quick. I guarantee you that's not been done for a while. That wasn't the easiest thing I've ever seen to get off. It's a little dirty. Clean that up. You can see this thing's in horrible shape, but, you know, when you let snow into your burner area, it tends to happen. Probably has something to do with that panel piece there missing. If it was running, it probably wouldn't be in there either. I mentioned before I like my stainless steel brush there. It does good at not leaving marks in it. Anyhow, got it back in there. That is not the easiest thing I've ever seen to get in there. If not, or I'm usually not too horribly worried about it. It usually arcs through freaking anything. Let's try this again. Obviously it ain't just the flame sensor, but we just clean it just to be precautious. Good stewards. Let's go up here and tell it to run. We're placing these gas valves the other day on another unit. Last one I had to valve. What I'm going to do, go ahead and fill this here. You get a regulator that might be froze up. Shut this back down. Let's crack that union and see if we got fuel after the regulator. There's a chance that maybe that thing's froze up. I've had that happen before. Now I was just kind of thinking we didn't hear the valve click. So let's check, see if we got a voltage coming to it first for a waste of time, taking it apart at the gas connection. Okay, we are getting voltage. Okay, let's put it back together and let's check the amperage and see if it's pulling anything on that. When I hooked that common wire and stuff back up, it felt like, or I heard it click. So I think we're going to see some amperage here in a second. It's starting to click. So the gas valve is working. We've got a problem with the gas. Like I said, just, well, it helps you turn it back on. Try that again now. Wait, surprisingly, those connections weren't making it very good on the gas valve. Well, did I call it or did I call it? I can smell a little something coming out, but you should be able to hear it whistling, Dixie. Uh, the regulator's malfunctioning, what I'm assuming here. I see it happen sometimes on LP regulators. I would hope that the gas has not been turned off in the back. No real good way to find out. Like I said, I can smell a little something through there. At this point, when everything's closed because of the snow crapping, nobody in town is going to have that anyway. I'm going to pour hot water across it and see if we can get it going. Once it gets running, maybe we'll be all right. Then we should probably have to, then we should probably get that regulator replaced because obviously the diaphragms are getting moisture in there and they're probably freezing into place. I'm going to go grab a bucket of hot water and see what we can do with this thing. Otherwise, I don't know what else you can do. Give us a little bit of piping hot water here. Some of you are like, man, it's just going to freeze again. You know what? What are you going to do? You just tell them to screw them. You got to do something good. Always somebody bitching. Always an armchair, a wheeled warrior. Anyhow, they could always ramp up with some freaking heat tape they really wanted to. Now they weren't open yesterday at all because everything was closed completely yesterday and it probably didn't run a whole lot. It's hard to say. So let's go ahead and pour this on there and see what we get. It was a LP company that kind of told me this trick. So let's see if it works or not. I've got it open still that way it starts bleeding through. Let's see if this works. Look at that. There goes the gas. All right, we've got plenty of gas coming through now. I think I'm crazy, don't you? Now let's go ahead and get this thing back together and get her juiced up. See what she does. Got her juiced back together. Let's do this one more time. There goes the draft motor, hopefully. Put on our blower door and it froze up again. Put a little more water on it. I got heat tape for 120 and 230 volt deal. So we might just run some heat tape up to the contactor up there. Yep, there it goes again. That sounds a little louder that time. A lot louder. It just ain't a whole heck of a lot to really hook it up on. You're out and around this thing. All that is the freaking spring. I need nothing more than a bracket just to hold it. I'm gonna pour some more water on it. He said it seems like it's been cold in here for a while. Once the ovens come on, usually it's not bad. I'm thinking we're gonna need to wrap some tape on it. It's 14 degrees I think right now. This is what we ended up getting. Normally we got it in bulk, which is cheaper, but it doesn't come with a nice plug on it or cord I should say. And it takes time to make it, not to mention the time to go back to the shop and get it. Normally I got that on my truck, but not so much today. We're gonna run this through an opening here somewhere or I may have made a Romex connector and get that thing up into that area there for power. Don't really have any fuses to add to it. I mean for the most part all this wiring in here is not rated for what that's rated for. It tripped out again. Let's see what we can conjure up here. I'm going to try to, I don't know if I'm just wrapping all the way around it. I'd like to do a coil on top like a snake, but I think we're just going to see what we can do far as wrapping around it. It's a six foot one with a six foot cord. Now keep in mind this is not the best idea in the world, but it's been done by the gas company before. I'm going to squish this down with duct tape. I've got a couple wire ties I'm going to apply to this. That way I'm trying to get the heat on the bottom side of the diaphragm and the top side pushing it down. That's what we're working on. That's what's going to look like before we do it. We'll get the duct tape on it first. They'll keep it kind of waterproofed. Not that this is already waterproofed. Then we'll see if we can wrap some sort of insulation around it to keep the heat in. This is self-regulating so it's not going to get overheated by the multiple laps. That's right in your instructions because I know some people may mention that and they are right on some brands out there. This one here is why we use this brand normally. See right there. A spiral trace, blah blah blah. A straight trace. It's waterproof covering all that crap. Anyhow, yeah, that's about all you can do. I love these greenly quick hole change carbides. You can switch the heads out. It drills right through that nasty thick stuff. We'll drill a hole through the bottom of it, run a romex connector up through there. It'd be good to go. You really should use two hands to see if it can't stoopend us. And with the way that bit's designed, it keeps it from going into electrical panel hitting the wires. And just run us a romex connector through there. Bring a wire up through the bottom. So we got some duct tape first, insulation tape now. And I'll probably put the duct tape around it again to try to keep that protected because you know that stuff can rip. Try to seal some of those holes, try to keep the heat in. I reset it once and it did not take off. So let's see if the heat or the insulation tape has helped at all in keeping the heat in to where it might actually warm it up and get it going here. It's running. Finally warmed it up enough. I'm half tempted and this would look really kind of ganky, but I'm half tempted to put a little expandable around the edge corners and stuff, maybe seal the top. That way if the rain gets on it, it falls off. We're not in that cold of weather that often. And we had some real extremes. I noticed that cap was a little loose, so we could have gotten some moisture down inside there. But yeah, that's about it on that there. We're going to let it run for a little while just to make sure it keeps running. All right guys, it's Saturday. I decided to stop back over because I don't live too far from this place. But it's been running, so it must be working. 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